The Holocaust in Perspective, United States/Germany Comparison

Was the Holocaust strictly a German phenomenon, as some would like us to believe, or could it happen elsewhere? (Have genocide’s happened since?) How important is it that we carefully scrutinize and care about the leader we select? Let us return to the period of the 1930’s and compare the economic situation of the times in both the US and Germany.

[one_half]GERMANY

The depression

Economic collapse

Unemployment

Hunger

Soup kitchens

Bread lines

Rise of Communism

anti-Semitism

Nazi Propaganda stirs up old hatred, blaming Jews for Germany ‘s hard times